Am 07.10.2013 11:11, schrieb [email protected]: > Hi guys, > > I've been doing some more digging about this issue and I think I've > figured out why the embedded JPEGs (or JPEGs in general) have settings I > can't seem to copy manually in darktable (mostly visible in white balance > & tints). > > It seems (semi recent) Nikon camera's apply a 'Picture Control' to the > images that determine how the final rendered image will appear. ViewNX > (Nikon's free RAW converter) knows this & uses this to generate JPEGs that > are identical to the JPEG files generated by the camera, but software that > is unaware of these fail to copy these settings. > > A similar issue exists in Lightroom > (http://photographylife.com/how-to-get-accurate-nikon-colors-in-lightroom) > and while this usually isn't really an issue (DarkTable tends to do an > excellent job at White Balance), sometimes the camera does it better than > I can. > > The solution thus would be to figure out what those Picture Controls do & > how to apply these things in DarkTable.
IMHO, this is not an issue. If you want image looking like the OOC JPEGs, use the OOC JPEGs. Developing your RAWs by yourself means making the image look like you want it, not what your camera does. And this implies the need to invest some time because this work has to be done manually. And you can not expect two different RAW developers to provide the same results, this ist simply not how it works because every one has some different algorithms, special features and sometimes, secret tricks. Something regarding the whitebalance topic: By default, darktable applies the whitebalance guessed by the camera (this information is encoded in the RAW file). And as far as i experienced, this mechanism worked quite well. You most likely want to have a look at some modules in the color category, and play around with saturations and color tints. Regards, Markus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134791&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
